Al-Hikmah University Journal

Kidnapping is among the contemporary social problems that are affecting the citizens and the socio-economic development of the Nigerians and lived the victims or escapees with some health conditions that required medical treatment or services such as protein-energy malnutrition, sexually transmitted disease, peptic ulcer disease and physical injuries. The main objectives of this paper are, to find out the physical health implication that is associated with kidnapping, to find out the psychological health implications associated with kidnapping and also the emotional health implication associated with kidnapping. The paper reviewed various researches from different authors. The paper was highlighting the physical, psychological and emotional implications of kidnapping. This paper was concluded and recommended that the federal and state government should provide a skills acquisition centre and the necessary training materials for the unemployed youths in their various communities to become self-reliance and independent in the society and also the government and non-governmental organizations should provide a free health care service after the victims released or escaped from the terrorist/kidnappers to ensure ensured each escapee are free from sexually transmitted disease examples Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), syphilis and gonorrhoea infection.